How to Compare strings in java [duplicate]

Answer 1

Cant compare strings like this

if (sc = happy)  // also, you never declare a happy variable. So use the 
                 // stirng literal like I did below
// also can't compare to Scanner instance
// instead compare to mood

Use equals

if ("happy".equals(mood)) {  // Caught commenter, can't use sc to compare, use mood
    // do something
}

Also, if in the future, you needed to use an = operation for comparison (for anything but strings), you would use a double ==

Answer 2

Always make use of .equals(..) method to compare String values..

if (mood.equals("happy")) 
  System.out.println("test");

if (mood.equals("sad")) 
    System.out.println("I am sad");

Answer 3

it should be like this

    if ("happy".equals(mood)
{
    System.out.println("IM HAPPYYYYYYY!!!!");
}

Answer 4

You need to correct the following things:

1. single = means indicates assignment, not comparison.

2. I assume you would like to check whether the string entered is equal to "happy" and "sad". Use equals method rather than "==" for checking string values.

3. why you put if (sc = sad) inside if (sc = happy). the inside check will never executed.

4. You need to check the values entered from console, rather than using Scanner sc itself.

So I think you need to change the code like follows:

String mood = sc.nextLine();

    if (mood.equals("happy")) {
        System.out.println("test");
    }

    if (mood.equals("sad")) {
        System.out.println("I am sad");
    } 

Answer 5

First of all, it looks like you are dealing with the wrong variable sc. I think you meant to compare mood.

When dealing with strings, always use .equals(), not ==. == compares the references, which is often unreliable, while .equals() compares the actual values.

It's also good practice to either convert your string to all uppercase or all lower case. I'll use lower case in this example with .toLowerCase(). .equalsIgnoreCase() is also another quick way around any case problems.

I'd also recommend an if-else-statement, not a second if-statement. Your code would look like this:

mood=mood.toLowerCase()

if (mood.equals("happy")) {
    System.out.println("test");
}

else if (mood.equals("sad")) {
    System.out.println("I am sad");

}

These are all pretty basic java concepts, so I'd recommend reading more thoroughly about some of them. You can check out some of the documentation and/or other questions here:

• if-else statement
• Strings
• Java String.equals versus ==

Answer 6

How I think you can approach this problem is by specify a set of pre-defined input parameter for the user to choose from then respond accordingly based on there choice e.g:

 System.out.println ("Enter you mood: [1 = happy,2 = sad,3 = confused]");
 int input = new Scanner(System.in).nextInt ();

 switch (input)
 {
   case 1:  System.out.println ("I am happy");break;
   case 2:  System.out.println ("I am sad");break;
   default: System.out.println ("I don't recognize your mood");
 }